Production, perception, and communicative goals of American newscaster speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2861571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Gasser (0000-0001-9933-899X, Swarthmore College, corresponding author), Byron Ahn (0000-0002-5204-6161, Princeton University), Donna Jo Napoli (0000-0001-6320-1086, Swarthmore College), Z L Zhou, Zongya Zhou (0000-0001-7866-2168, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-259 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404518001392 |
| OpenAlex | W2918035151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Listeners often have the intuition that the speech of broadcast news reporters somehow 'sounds different'; previous literature supports this observation and has described some distinctive aspects of newscaster register. This article presents two studies further describing the characteristic properties and functions of American English newscaster speech, focusing specifically on prosody. In the first, we investigate the production of newscaster speech. We describe the measurable differences in pitch, speed, intensity, and melodic features between newscaster and conversational speech, and connect those traits to perceptions of authority, credibility, charisma, and related characteristics. In the second, we investigate the perception of newscaster speech. Our experiments demonstrate that listeners can distinguish newscaster from conversational speech given only prosodic information, and that they use a subset of the newscasters' distinguishing features to do so. (News, prosody, discourse registers, speech perception, credibility, authority
Art · Charisma · Credibility · Linguistics · Melody · Motor theory of speech perception · Musical · Perception · Political science · Prosody · Speech perception · Speech production · Speech recognition · Speech synthesis · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |